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Rising Wages, Lagging Productivity: The End of Bulgaria’s Cheap Labor Advantage
Income growth in Bulgaria outpaces labor productivity by far, signaling the end of the low-cost labor model

The week: Why Nations Fail in football and elections
One night in Belfast, What is wrong with the Air Force, Varna ex-mayor is sinking

The week: The Romanian way
The boom on the other side of the Danube, Where did 4 billion leva go, the biggest Renter in Sofia

Russia’s floating petrol stations near the Bulgarian coast
Moscow’s "ghost fleet" of tankers undercuts marine fuel prices just off Bulgarian territorial waters and might be circumventing EU sanctions

From political to constitutional: Bulgarian caretaker gov’t crisis deepens
President Radev refuses to appoint the Kozhareva cabinet over her insistence on reappointing controversial internal minister Kalin Stoyanov, creating further political turmoil

Putting out fire after fire, or why Bulgaria has a hard time dealing with natural disasters
The country needs an aerial system for firefighting, but it has failed to buy even a single helicopter in the past three decades

Polish company Renters buys the Bulgarian leader in short-term rentals Flat Manager
This is Bulgaria's first deal with a real estate startup

10 Years After the Collapse of CCB: Where Are the Key Figures Now?
A decade after the closure of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), there are still no convictions, and the mega-trial for draining its accounts is going nowhere

BrightCap launches second venture capital fund with 60 million euros
The team will look for young software companies in which to invest between 400 thousand and 3 million euros in exchange for shares

Three stories of making anti-corruption work - and last
From the New Orleans police department to the port of Lagos, several key principles can create a culture of integrity, Oxford professor Christopher Stone argues

Who is Evelin Banev-Brendo, the narcotrafficker who handed himself in last week?
The mafioso with over 30 years of accumulated sentences abroad goes to prison, but his high-level protectors won’t

Programmatic’s paperless contracts
The Bulgarian-founded company develops fully digital contracts with a focus on what happens after they are signed

The largest hybrid project in the region is in the Bulgarian town of Razlog
The batteries were installed at a 33-megawatt solar park near Razlog, owned by Investo Partners, the ultimate owner of which is the Austria based Renalfa IPP

Nothing’s worse than sunny weather
Disruptions across Europe are surprisingly due to Bulgaria and the inability to balance the system

Where did Velichie come from and where are they headed?
The new protest party rode on the wave of social media and sounds even more extreme than Vazrazhdane - can it be tamed?

The week: Is CEE turning into Latin America, The return of GERB is (almost) complete, Sofia's got trouble
K Insights newsletter: 17/05

The week: Who’s running the country?
Who is really in charge? Elections lurk on every corner and a pharmaceutical boom

The week: Why we no longer need EU cash
Who needs Europe's money? Or a Foreign Minister? Kozloduy gets US nuclear fuel